Product Lifecycle & Master Data Specialist

JUST INGREDIENTS INC•Orem, UT

9d•$65,000 - $85,000•Onsite

About The Position

Just Ingredients is seeking a Product Lifecycle & Master Data Specialist to own accurate product information, including specifications, item master data, and lifecycle records. Reporting to the Quality & FDA Compliance Manager, this role ensures product data is accurate, approved, traceable, and consistent across company systems and channels. The specialist works with Product Development, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, Accounting, Marketing, Sales, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to support product launches, manufacturing, compliance, and reliable reporting. The role manages product information throughout its lifecycle, coordinates stage-gate inputs and product changes, maintains specifications and compliance records, and owns SKU item master data in NetSuite. It also supports bills of materials, connected-system data consistency, formal change control, system integrations, data migration, and process improvements.

Requirements

3–5+ years of experience with product specifications, master data, ERP or PLM systems, or a regulated manufacturing environment.
Hands-on experience with NetSuite item records, BOMs, and inventory or product data integrations.
Familiarity with product compliance data such as label claims, allergens, certifications, and UPC/GTIN requirements.
Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills.
Clear communication skills and ability to coordinate data changes across multiple teams and systems.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Workspace.
Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Supply Chain, Business, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in food, supplements, or CPG.
Experience with SharePoint, eQMS, PIM, or e-commerce and EDI integrations.

Responsibilities

Manage product information and lifecycle status from concept and development through launch, active sale, discontinuation, and obsolescence.
Support the new product stage-gate process by ensuring required product information, approvals, and cross-functional inputs are complete before handoffs.
Coordinate product change requests for formulas, packaging, labels, suppliers, and manufacturing data, and communicate timing and impact to affected teams.
Coordinate item setup, required documentation, and cross-functional dependencies for launch readiness.
Review slow-moving products and recommend reformulation, discontinuation, or other action, using supporting data for stakeholders.
Create, maintain, revise, and distribute approved finished-product, ingredient, and packaging specifications.
Maintain specification revision history, approval records, and supporting documents.
Partner with Quality to manage compliance data, including formulation versions, label claims, certifications and attributes, UPC/GTIN assignments, and record retention.
Ensure product and material records link to the correct specifications and documents, and flag missing, expired, or inconsistent information for resolution.
Own the item master as the single source of truth for SKU data and establish and enforce data standards, naming conventions, item structures, and classifications.
Keep product, ingredient, and packaging data consistent across NetSuite, digital asset, warehouse and 3PL, e-commerce, and other connected systems; resolve discrepancies.
Create and maintain NetSuite item records and bills of materials, including item types, units of measure, preferred vendors, reorder points, and costing.
Maintain BOM yield and scrap assumptions and revision control to preserve traceability and historical costing and production records.
Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to align BOMs with manufacturing partner records, document approved substitutions and alternate vendors, and reconcile assembly builds, inventory, and lot data across systems.
Coordinate UPC/GTIN and item attribute requirements to support reporting, fulfillment, and channel needs.
Maintain product change records and revision history in support of formal Change Control, ensuring updates are reflected in affected systems and documents.
Partner with the NetSuite administrator and system owners on custom fields, data ownership, and integration mappings for e-commerce, EDI, PIM, and other downstream channels.
Support PLM, ERP, eQMS, data migration, and system improvement projects, including testing workflow, integration, and data-structure changes.
Document data management procedures and identify improvements to data quality, automation, traceability, and consistency.